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Mr. Arase, who is in London for his son’s graduation, said in a statement on Monday that every information needed by his successor on vehicles bought by the police were in his handover notes. He said all vehicles bought by the police under him were distributed to the state commands and other appropriate units of the force.

Militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, has once again attacked a crude oil trunkline belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria in Batan, Warri South West Council Area of Delta State.

It was learnt that the properties located in the highbrow areas of Lagos and Abuja were seized as part of investigations into the N1.219bn the governor allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser when Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) held sway, through a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, as well as some kickbacks he  allegedly received from the Ekiti State Government contractors.

A television/film producer has narrated how policemen followed him to an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) to collect a N10,000 bribe.  According to Benjamin Ogunbodede, an unmarried man, He was arrested and detained by police officers attached to Ajuwon Police Station in Ogun on an adultery charge and was eventually extorted of his money after being detained overnight. Ogunbodede said that he was detained between July 15 and 16 after he was arrested at about 10:30 pm while returning from work in the company of a lady he had given a lift in his car.

Former presidential aide Doyin Okupe, has admitted he was being paid N10m monthly by the detained former National Security Adviser, Lt. Col. Sabo Dasuki (Rtd.).

The National Judicial Council of Nigeria (NJC) has dismissed Justice Mohammed Yunusa and two other judges for judicial malpractices. The NJC met on Thursday and Friday to consider several allegations of judicial misconduct by Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court, Justice Olamide Falahanmi Oloyede of the Osun High Court, and an unnamed judge from Benue State. At the end of its deliberations, the NJC decided that the three judges deserved to be dismissed for acts of gross misconduct.

Dr Wale Oke, the Chief Medical Director, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, on Monday said the institution had conducted 10 successful cochlear implant surgeries.

 Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode has been appointed Chairman of the National Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress for the gubernatorial election holding in Edo State on September 10. Inaugurating the Campaign Council in Benin City, last weekend, National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said the party will win the election with ease based on the good records of the incumbent Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

The family of kidnapped traditional ruler of Iba town, Ojo Local Government Area, Lagos, Oba Yushau Oseni, says they have yet to receive any information from his abductors 24 hours after. The Nigerian Observer reports that the 74-year-old first class monarch was abducted from his palace on Saturday at about 8 p.m.

Eight persons have been remanded at the Olokuta medium security prison by the Akure Magistrate’s Court in connection with the abduction of two Catholic reverend sisters on the Benin-Ijebu Ode Expressway at Kajola village, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State.